People. Places And Things

Premier Material Concepts™ (PMC), named Kerry Pinion Inside Sales and Service Manager. Pinion will manage day-to-day PMC customer support activities as well as order processing and sales and service development.

Paul Gandolfo joins SIMONA AMERICA Inc. as CEO. Gandolfo has a proven track record in the plastics industry including extensive experience in injection molding and extrusion.

Stiles Machinery Inc. welcomes Brad Duncan as District Sales Manager in its South Central Region. Duncan will be working exclusively with Stiles Machinery’s dealer partner, Howard S. Twichell, in Southern and Central Texas. Stiles Machinery also announced Advantek as their new dealer partner in the company’s South Central Region. Advantek will exclusively cover Louisiana, Arkansas and Western Tennessee. Advantek, headed by Phillip Stafford, will represent the full line of production equipment solutions and support services offered by Stiles Machinery Inc.

Anna Colon-Ebert, Frank Garger and Marlene Schippers, Inside Sales Representatives with PALRAM Americas, Inc., recently received Advanced Inside Sales certification from the International Association of Plastics Distributors (IAPD).
The training is designed to give sales representatives insight on how distributors perceive value. Courses include Pricing, Quantifiable Value Added Selling and the Complex Sale. Greater understanding of the selling process will assist PALRAM inside sales representatives in providing superior customer service to their clients and prospect base.

For more information, contact Plastics Distributor & Fabricator magazine.